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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I don't even mind the drop pass, it makes sense because you want to gain the blueline with speed and push the defense back. It makes sense a lot of teams do it and its effective.
The Flames though showed this stupid determination or a lack of recognition of what the Canucks were doing which is basically standing up on their side of center ice, the Flames would try to force a bad situation. What they should have been doing was shooting the puck in more and using their speed to get in on the puck. They refused to do that.
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This is one thing I think the group of players struggles with is making changes on the fly and thinking spontaneously.
The Canucks had 4 players lined up at the blue line. Then the Flames would rush 4 guys up and do the drop...now you have 8 guys standing at the blueline and Gaudreau or Lindholm trying to maneuver through those 8 bodies to enter the zone.
The right play there would have been to fake the bump back after it didn't work the first couple times and then dump it behind the Canucks. Flames would have had 3-4 guys attacking with speed to retrieve the puck, while the Canucks were flat footed at the blue line.